- Starring: Adam Phillips, Amy Landecker, Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Tatyana Richaud
- Summary: While out on parole, Dennis (Paul Giamatti) reluctantly takes a job selling Christmas trees with his old buddy Rene (Paul Rudd) in order to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano she's always wanted.
- Director: Phil Morrison
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 3 out of 15
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90A sardonic, smart screwball comedy.
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80Ror me its heartbreaking denouement – with shades of a Raymond Carver or William Kennedy ending – packed a prodigious emotional wallop.
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70Although laughs do come... the film is happy to observe wryly as boredom and failure threaten to overwhelm the men.
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50There are tones of 1970s shaggy realism that are interrupted by moments of character-driven shtick. The wistful scenes aren’t rich enough to engross you and the comedy isn’t clever enough to make a difference.
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50Semi-flat with only a few jokes and emotional beats that land, the picture is often dull when it should be poignant.
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50All Is Bright remains engaging, for the most part, but most of the big narrative turns feel both predictable and forced, and at odds with the natural charms of the cast.
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25The script, by Melissa James Gibson, is as scintillating as a dead rodent.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 1 out of 2
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